Leather piercer

The answer

AWL

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AWL answer page.

Used 18 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1990. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for AWL

Every other clue in this collection answered by AWL, most used first.

• Piercing tool - used 149 times, most recently in 2026
• Cobbler's tool - used 79 times, most recently in 2026
• Hole-punching tool - used 61 times, most recently in 2026
• Hole-making tool - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Hole maker - used 53 times, most recently in 2026
• Leatherworker's tool - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Hole puncher - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Pointed tool - used 37 times, most recently in 2022
• Punching tool - used 37 times, most recently in 2026
• Shoemaker's tool - used 32 times, most recently in 2025
• Puncturing tool - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Saddler's tool - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Leatherworking tool - used 23 times, most recently in 2025
• Belt maker's tool - used 21 times, most recently in 2023
• Leather-piercing tool - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Leather punch - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Sharp tool - used 14 times, most recently in 2016
• Tool. - used 14 times, most recently in 1997
• Sharp punch - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
• Boring tool - used 12 times, most recently in 2022
• Leather worker's tool - used 11 times, most recently in 2020
• Leatherwork tool - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Bookbinder's tool - used 9 times, most recently in 2024
• Carpentry tool - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Hole punch - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Leather-punching tool - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Leather sticker - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Leather tool - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Poking tool - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Punch - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Shoemaker's holemaker - used 8 times, most recently in 2015
• Belt-making tool - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Beltmaker's tool - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Cobbler's punch - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Its point is to make holes - used 7 times, most recently in 2014
• Pointy tool - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Punch in the shop - used 7 times, most recently in 2010
• Cobbling tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Hole starter - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Saddlery tool - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Shoe leather. - ELK, used 28 times
• Leather color - TAN, used 17 times
• Leather. - ELK, used 16 times
• Leather shade - TAN, used 11 times
• Leather. - KID, used 9 times
• Make leather - TAN, used 9 times

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